Knightriders (1981)
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Cast
as Billy
as Alan
as Morgan
as Linet
as Julie
as Angie
as Pippin
as Whiteface
as Merlin
as Steve
as Rocky
as Tuck
as Bagman
as Sheila
as Bontempi
as Indian
as Little John
as Ban
as Bors
as Punch
as Sheriff Rilly
as Cook
as Marhalt
as Helen Dean
as Judy
as Jess
as Kay
as Hector
as Corncook
as Bleoboris
as Corncook
as Pellinore
as Bleoboris
as Hoagie Man
as Musician Trio
as Bors
Critic Reviews for Knightriders
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (3) | DVD (3)
Knightriders is about 50 percent scenes of kick-ass moto-jousting, 40 percent philosophizing around the campfire, and 10 percent lyrical shots of King William
Harris embodies his character with such conviction that the character's struggle to retain the integrity of his dream ultimately exudes a modest poignancy.
The story's heart comes to keeping the community and its ideals/values intact.
The angle is unique enough to make this worth a viewing, and it's nice to see top makeup artist Tom Savini given such a sizable role.
[A] singular combination of medieval fantasy and post-60s rebel mystique.
feels less "spartan" on purpose than "affectless" by accident.
Audience Reviews for Knightriders
if you're interested in real life "interactive drama" on arthurian tales, you might be interested in this picture. interactive drama is the forefather of on-line video game. and its even earlier form is table-game. arthurian interactive drama is about a bunch of people who wanna impersonate the characters in arthurian legend, follow the basic rules and characteristics of their roles then immerse themselves in that fictional lifestyle. pretty much like war of warcraft put into reality-play. now this movie is about interactive drama lifestyle blended with motorcycle gang. the puritanical version of hell angels because the leader of the gang insists his crew live by the moral codes of arthur. and in the dialogues, they even bring out marlon brando's "the wild one" (narcissitic self-beautification also for the hell's angels in that hunter thompson's documentary book)... knightriders is kinda experimentally shot and only those who play interactive drama would be interested in it. but frankly interative drama is an absurd idea for me, an escapism, and i cannot help but feel ridiculous when i see those people dress in cheap-materialed costumes and live in a virtual world which really looks too fake to take it seriously. and i also feel strange about why that cult gives such an importance over that role-playing thing they do, and how they make a living? wouldn't that be boring to behave like that 24 hours a day? maybe that're just prejudices out of my criticial mind which demand high sense of realism. it's just like someone weeps over the death of his on-line game character...you feel like to laugh but he's so upset that you try to dissolve your contempt and lessen it into apathy.
Super Reviewer
Has mythologizing as weird as Zardoz... Add melodrama; hippie disillusionment; cut-and-dried philosophical stands about selling-out, redneckophobia; subplots about sexual and gender identity; a way of editing the jousts that makes you feel cheated; and a way of editing most everything else that makes it look like the coolest industrial film you've ever seen. All added together you end up with... an endearing WTF
Super Reviewer
A pre fame Ed Harris is the only decent thing in this weird, way overlong hybrid flick, probably the only renaissance faire biker movie in existence.
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